After opening up the Little Hawkeye Conference schedule with a win over Knoxville on Tuesday, the Pella Christian boys basketball team will play their final game before the holiday break to night at Grinnell.

With the season-opener behind them, the Pella Christian boys basketball team has returned to practice this week aiming to strengthen some of the weak areas of their game that were exposed against West Marshall on Monday.

The much anticipated basketball season gets its official start tonight for the Pella Christian boys basketball team, and few observers are more excited about the possibilities for this year’s team than Head Coach Larry Hessing.

A loss to Albia in the Class 2-A District Tournament ended the Pella Christian boys’ season earlier than the Eagles had hoped, but a line-up dominated by juniors could be the silver lining on the cloud of an earlier-than-anticipated exit.

Just a little more than a day after facing a top-ranked, undefeated team in Class 2-A, the Pella Christian Boys basketball team will be back at it this afternoon when the Eagles host Norwalk to close out the regular season.

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The Pella Christian boys basketball team must have felt like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day” last night, as they found themselves repeating the same early game miscues that doomed them in the first meeting and again leaving them unable to recover from an early deficit to Pella.

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The Pella Christian boys basketball team found themselves trailing Newton early on in last night’s Little Hawkeye Conference match-up, but quickly broke the game open with solid outside shooting and never gave up the lead again

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In a tightly contested game that featured 14 lead changes and 8 ties, the Pella Christian boys basketball team used a 10-0 run in the fourth quarter to jump ahead for good in a 55-41 home victory over Oskaloosa.

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The Pella Christian boys basketball team took a game that was competitive through the first half and broke it wide open in the final two periods, as the Eagles picked up a 77-47 Homecoming victory over Knoxville last night.